Re: Earl C. Anthony registry?????
Posted by Leeedy On 2019/10/17 11:33:58
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ECAnthony wrote:
KECA, Anthony's "other" radio station in Los Angeles, was sold to what later became the ABC Network (American Broadcasting Company), when the FCC ordered NBC to split their NBC-Blue and NBC-Red stations in the 1940s. (KECA is now the radio station KABC.) So, the later ECA dash board plates would mention only KFI.
ECA, Inc. in Los Angeles took on Ford's M-E-L lineup in 1958 (Mercury, Edsel and Lincoln). By the time the dealership, located at 10th and Hope, closed in 1962 only Lincolns and Mercurys were being sold. Up in San Francisco, the Chrysler lineup was being sold into the 1960s. Around 1975, it became British Motors.
When I worked there in the 1970s they used to let me park my Scottish Heather/Dover White 1956 Packard Four Hundred in the basements (Mr. Anthony's original safety ramps were still intact from street level-down).
The 1000 S. Hope St. location of the Los Angeles ECA dealership today is now a condo complex named "Packard Lofts." Tours in the area and bogus "histories" in books and on the internet will tell also you that this was also the location of the first neon sign, but not true. That sign was actually located at the corner of 7th and Flower (the uninformed will argue this into the ground).
I wonder what Mr. Anthony would think of what has become of his beautiful building that could once display up to 25 Packards in absolute splendor?This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=215868